>From: Rafa Grimán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>El Martes, 19 de Diciembre de 2006 21:17, Jan Engelhardt escribió:
>> >Can anyone recommend a quad port nic card that will work on SuSE-10.0.
>>
>> "SUN QFE". Rare stuff. Worked inside a SPARC. The module is
>> generic, so it should work anywhere where you can put the card in.
>> PCI-X, hence, should also work everywhere.
>>
>> (I just don't get it why manufacturers don't slap
>> more than two ports on NICs...)
>
>
>PCI bandwidth problems, latencies, bottlenecks, ... PCI technology hasn't
>advanced that much :(
For its time, you could regard something like QFE as perfect. And even
now, it serves as a good routing card. It is very useful where the
number of PCI slots is limited.
-`J'
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